Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:48:34 -0400 From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> To: raggen@raggens.net Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Newsyslog mode on /var/log/security? Message-ID: <p06240806c5f61b303986@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <49D061C6.6060104@telia.com> References: <49CFDEA2.2080606@telia.com> <p06240805c5f59b1b34cd@[128.113.24.47]> <49D061C6.6060104@telia.com>
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At 8:08 AM +0200 3/30/09, Roger Olofsson wrote: >Garance A Drosehn skrev: >>At 10:48 PM +0200 3/29/09, Roger Olofsson wrote: >>> >>>I seem to have forgotten something about /var/log/security and >>>newsyslog.conf. I get wrong mode after the trim. >>> >>>Excerpt from /etc/newsyslog.conf: >>>/var/log/security 644 7 5000 * JC >> >> >>Are you sure that's the only line you have for /var/log/security in >>your /etc/newsyslog.conf file? The distributed config file has: >> >>/var/log/security 600 10 100 * JC >> >>Obviously you have a different entry from that, but did you remove >>the original entry? > >Hi Garance, > >You are correct! I missed the original line. Silly me :^D Well, I should probably change newsyslog to "do something different" (he says vaguely) when the same file is specified multiple times. >Thank you very much! You're welcome. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosehn@rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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